In a video message to members, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher signaled contract negotiations with the studios were going well, suggesting Hollywood may avert a second strike.
An agreement with the actors, coming on the heels of a contract recently, would likely put more pressure on Writers Guild of America and the AMPTP to resolve their standoff, although guild leaders have stressed they would not be bound by terms negotiated by other guilds.
in a dispute over their commercials contract. The previous actors’ strike against the major film and TV studios was in 1980.
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